Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in your classroom with St. Patrick’s Day Minute to Win It games. These games can be used as part of a classroom party, for a classroom reward, or as an opportunity to build classroom community. For a bit of time and effort, your students will have a blast and ask to repeatedly play St. Patrick’s Day Minute to Win It.
Using St. Patrick’s Day Minute to Win It Games in the Classroom
Minute to Win It games are perfect for the classroom setting because they are simple, fun, and easy. Since each game is only one minute long, they can be used as time fillers or grouped to fill a longer chunk of time. Use them during indoor recess or a classroom party, or set a goal, such as quiet transitions for students to earn Minute to Win It Games. If you have the materials ready, you can play these games anytime!
Many of the materials to play these St. Patrick’s Day Minute to Win It games may already be in your classroom or can be purchased from a local grocery store, Target, or Walmart. Donations from families are also a great way to get everything you need.
How to Play St. Patrick’s Day Minute to Win It Games
Students can play St. Patrick’s Day Minute to Win It games independently, with partners, or on teams. to play, explain the game, and set a timer, or use these slides, which include an image, description, and built-in timer for each game. Depending on the purpose of playing and the age of the players, decide if the games are just for fun or if points will be scored. Finally, choose the games you will play.
17 Possible Minute to Win It Games
There are endless options for Minute to Win it Games. These 17 St. Patrick’s Day Minute to Win It games use rainbow, leprechaun, gold, and green-themed items often associated with St. Patrick’s Day by kids. Pick and choose the ones you want to use to bring some competition and lots of fun into your classroom.
1. Stack Attack
Materials: 10 cups per player/team
How to Play: Race to stack and unstack the 10 cups in one minute.
2. Balance the Rainbow
Materials: Froot Loops and Tongue Depressors
How to Play: See how many Froot Loops you can balance on the tongue depressor in one minute.
3. Cup of Green
Materials: Skittles, Tweezers, and Cups
How to Play: Race to see how many green Skittles you can transfer in one minute.
4. Pinch Me
Materials: Plates, Tweezers, and Froot Loops
How to Play: Players use tweezers to transfer Froot Loops from one plate to another in one minute.
5. Roll a Rainbow
Materials: Dice, Crayons, and Roll a Rainbow printables
How to Play: Players race to roll a die and see if they can color all of the numbers within one minute.
6. Stay Away
Materials: Straws, Froot Loops, and Tape
How to Play: Players use straws to blow the Froot Loops and see who has the least on their side after one minute.
7. Rainbow Wrap
Materials: Streamers
How to Play: Players work in teams to wrap one player up in the streamers in one minute.
8. Threading Rainbows
Materials: Froot Loops and Pipe Cleaners
How to Play: Race to see who can thread the most cereal on the pipe cleaner in one minute.
9. Defy Gravity
Materials: Balloons
How to Play: Players attempt to keep a balloon in the air for one minute without touching the ground.
10. Cookie Face
Materials: Mint Oreos or another cookie
How to Play: Place the cookie on your forehead. Players can only move their faces as they try to move the cookie from their forehead to their mouth.
11. Stacks of Gold
Materials: Gold Coins
How to Play: Use one hand to stack as many gold coins as possible in one minute.
12. Cereal Scramble
Materials: Cereal Box
How to Play: Race to put the cereal box back together in one minute or less.
13. Scooping Skittles
Materials: Skittles, Spoons, and Cups
How to Play: Race to move the Skittles off the table to the cup using only a spoon in one minute.
14. Lucky Charms Stack
Materials: Lucky Charms
How to Play: Race to stack the marshmallows. The highest stack after one minute wins!
15. Gold Digger
Materials: Sand, Cups, Spoons, and Skittles
How to Play: Race to remove the gold Skittles from the sand. The person who removes the most in one-minute wins!
16. Skittle Switch
Materials: Skittles, Cups, and Straws
How to Play: Using a straw, try to move all of the Skittles from one cup to another in one minute.
17. Rainbow Sort
Materials: Froot Loops
How to Play: In one minute, race to sort your Froot Loops by color.
The ultimate goal is to have fun! Embrace the excitement and time with your students as they build relationships, laugh, and find a new favorite activity.
Are you still unsure about using Minute to Win It games in your classroom? Give them a try with the freebie below.
